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The tea party was not an Election Day loser

Now that the dust has settled, the electoral trend of 2012 is clear: when candidates run on a message of conservative economic policy and limited government, they win.

The Election Day losers were not the so-called “tea partiers,” they were the candidates embraced by (and some hand-picked by) the Republican establishment who failed to run on the winning message of economic freedom.

House incumbents like Bobby Schilling (Illinois.), Nan Hayworth (New York), Roscoe Bartlett (Maryland), Frank Guinta (New Hampshire), and Chip Cravaack (Minnesota), who scored 33 percent, 25 percent, 38 percent, 40 percent and 25 percent respectively on the FreedomWorks Legislative Scorecard, lost their seats. In other words, when given the opportunity to spend more taxpayer money and to expand the size and power of the federal government, these elected officials did it over 50 percent of the time. The political result: they were all sent home. Fiscal conservatives looked beyond party politics this year and examined incumbents’ voting records, and clearly they weren’t happy with what they saw.

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No Matt Kibbe, they all lost because they had an ‘R’ by their names. The voting public is now solidly socialist. They want the government hand-outs. They despise anyone who wants to deny them that. Let’s be honest with ourselves for once, please Matt.

The only option we have left is to separate ourselves from the Democrats in the U.S. Secession? Yes. I’m all in favor of it. But it’s going to take way too long.

Better to just de-friend anyone we know who is a Democrat. Stop associating with them. Stop doing business with them. Stop spending tourist dollars in blue states. Stop buying products in blue states.

The Republican candidate for the presidency is no tea partier. Oh, he may have made his bones in the town where the original thing happened, but in fact he is a big government, moderate, striped trouser type.

Let us have a keen eyed, thoughtful and true conservative – red in tooth and claw (in the fevered dreaming of those who consider themselves the pillars of the GOP, who are noodles in fact) – willing to say in a compelling and frank manner what it is the American citizen and government are to be about.

I don’t think that any of them won. But nativist definitely lost the most – and the GOP lost a bunch because of Romney’s bashing of Perry. And refusal to hold the Obama administration to account for its wonton disregard of Hispanic life in FF. SoCons? Meh. Only if you consider brain dead Akin-style social conservatism as “SoCon.” I don’t. Free Marketers? I wish. But the statist are going to pretend that Romney was a free marketeer so that they can say that free market conservatism was, therefore, rejected.